"Things may happen, but in the end, so long as you have a good amount of strength and wisdom, you can get throught it. But with friends, you have those bases covered for you."

Selene to a Mistralian Trader.

Selene was worried sick. She hadn't seen Ryner since the incident in the cafeteria with Cardin and his goons. She was taking a walk with RWBY and JNPR when she saw a sight that shocked her. Ryner had just walked back into the school. With a middle-aged man in tow.

"Rye!" She yelled, catching said depressed looking teenagers attention. They ran up to him, only to startle the middle-aged man. "Where have you been? I didn't see you at all last night where were you?"

"Places." Ryner replied bluntly, glancing over at Weiss, who seemed to be containing a grin. Selene noted she would ask him about it later. Ryner swayed a little, and his eyes seemed to be bulging, and flicking from place to place as if transfixed by something.

The man had messy black hair, green eyes and a lot of stubble. He wore a black suit with a green tie and an insane look in his eye. His smile was almost too wide, and the suit had lumps and mounds like he was hiding things under it.

"Erm, who are you?" Blake asked, giving him suspicious eyes.

"I, mi' lady," He said, bowing down and taking Blake's hand as if to kiss the back of it. She flinched away repulsed and he just shrugged, straitening up. "Am Ajax."

"And what exactly do you do, Mr Ajax?" Prryha said.

"Me?" he said, his eye twitching once. "I-I'm a journalist. Yeah, for eh, Kush magazine. I was simply asking my old friend Ry-er, Blade here what being a hunter-in-training is really like and shit." He said, nodding as if agreeing with himself.

"This man is lying." Moon told Selene. "And he smells vile."

"Uh huh." Selene said, watching the man's body language and reading over his lie like a book, but not pressing further. "I could tell." Ryner had stayed unusually quiet throughout their conversation, and had even stumbled on his feet a few times without having moved. "Rye?"

"Yes marshmallow smerf lady?" he said, his voice distant.

"Whats wrong with him?" Yang said, walking over to Ryner and shaking him a little, making Ryner hold his head in displeasure.

"Oh him?" Ajax said shuffling his feet. "He's just dehydrated, yeah. Making him all delusional man."

"Aha! We meet again Evil Overlord Horse Radish!" The spectators were so confused by this point.

"Yeah, you may wanna put him to bed while I go see Ozpin." Ajax told them.

"Sure." Yang, Weiss, Blake and Pyrrha all said at the same time. Realizing what just happened they then proceeded to glare at each other. "Blade, you jammy bastard." Ajax muttered under his breath.

"I'll do it." Ren and Jaune said at the same time. They then dragged Ryner to his room, while Ryner could still be heard shouting.

"Octopus nipples!?"

"What do you think that was about?" Ruby asked, cocking her head a little like she did when she was trying to figure something out. Selene noticed she was staring and stopped herself.

They stayed quiet for a moment, then Pyrrha, Weiss, Yang and Blake all turned to each other with glaring eyes. "Just what did you mean by 'Sure'?" They all yelled at each other. Selene and Ruby backed away a step, and Nora just clapped her hands like she was ready to watch a fight.

"Selene, I know it should be obvious by now, but when Yang gets mad, she hits things." Ruby said quietly.

"I know Ruby." Selene answered.

"I don't want Blake or Pyrrha hurt." She said. "Oh and Weiss, except you can leave her till last."

Selene sighed and stood between the red faced girls. "Haven't we got classes to go to?"

The girls gave one last death glare to eachother, but eventually separated and walked off to their classes. Weiss was with Selene for that afternoon. Ruby hugged Selene goodbye and went off to help with Ryner.

Selene turned to Weiss, giving her a look as they walked without speaking. Eventually Weiss's nerve broke, "What?!"

"Oh nothing." Selene toyed. "It's just that yesterday you couldn't care less if Blade was on the edge of a cliff being tied down with a rock. And today, you volunteer to help him to bed, even get angry when someone else asks."

"What's your deal?" Weiss said, her poker face on but her ears turning a shade of pink.

"I think, Blade was otherwise engaged last night." Selene grinned, and Weiss glowered, but gave in.

"Okay fine, things happened and I ended up kissing him."

"You kissed him?!"

"She kissed him?!" Moon said in disbelief.

"Yes I kissed him." She said, her face growing pink now. "It was the heat of the moment and he's sweet in a weird way.

"Heat of the moment?"

"He's sweet?" Moon was really starting to think Ryner had put a curse on Weiss.

She smiled recollecting the memory and stayed quiet. Selene was in too much shock to want to press further. She didn't feel jealous of Weiss, more disappointed Rye didn't tell her, and fear for how that Grimm inside of him thought about it.

[Ryner]

Ryner's brain was still hazy, the memories of the day before heavily altered by Ajax's 'Miracle' as he call it.

"Oh, yeah! Blade!" The middle-aged man turned to Ryner. The man had messy black hair, green eyes and a lot of stubble. He wore a black suit with a green tie and an insane look in his eye.

"What is it, Ajax?" Ryner asked the man. Ajax then proceeded to pull out a syringe filled with some kind of glowing white liquid from his coat pocket and held it out for Ryner to take.

"BasicallythiswillhelpyoukeepLegionundercontrolforalittlewhile!" Ajax zoomed.

"What?" The man's talking speed was amazing. Ajax then rectified what he had said.

"This will help you...you know...keep your, mojo, under control for a little while."

Ryner took the syringe, white was filled with a suspicious white liquid. Ryner rasied an eyebrow? "Is it safe?"

"Oh perfectly dude, just don't inject it in your feet, that how I ended up on the wrong side of Goodwitch." Ryner shrugged and plunged it into his arm. Then pressing the top of the needle to spread the liquid through his system.

"I don't see what that was supposed to do bra- whoa!" Legion began freaking out. "Sweet mother Grimm! Why is that turkey-dolphin purple?" Even Ryner began seeing things.

Yang was in a predicament. Not that she minded. In fact, she was in the same predicament Selene was last month. She had tried to wake Ryner, and he clung on, which then made Selene and Moon come up with the insane idea that if someone slept with Ryner at night, he would wake up on time in the morning.

Anyway, they were sitting in Port's class when Ryner jolted awake, shirtless and under the lustful stare of just about ninety-five percent of the females in the class.

"INGLEBERT HUMPERDINK!" Ryner roared with a finger in the air. Selene broke into laughter, he done this almost every time he fell asleep cuddling her. Last time it was "My toe enjoys bacon ninjas!" Everyone else looked bewildered.

"Mr Hunter! Thank you for volunteering to fight John!"

"But sir, isn't John dead?" another classmate said.

"Silly boy! The box is named John!" Ryner looked seriously confused.

"He means that anything in the box is called John." Ren told him.

"Ah, okay."

Selene threw Ryner a backpack, and inside were his usual clothes. He just looked back at her, still laughing. "We prepared."

"Thanks." Ryner said putting up his middle finger. He ran out of the classroom, only to emerge back in his casual attire. Much to the disappointment of a certain blonde girl. "I may kill Ajax when I get a hold of him."

"Brat..." Legion whispered. "I see dead people."

"Right, get ready John."

After class Ryner decided to take another walk. Only to be stopped by Yang. "I heard you kissed Weiss." She said.

"Erm, I can ex-" But he stopped when he noticed her eyes go red.

"First you sleep with Selene, then you tell me your name, then you kiss Weiss?" She stopped when she finally added two and two. "Is that where you were last night?!"

Ryner put his hands up defensively. "Yes okay but-"

"And at lunch that day, when Blake came over, you and her had a moment?" She asked, her voice getting strained more and more.

"I wouldn't call it a moment." Yang glared at him and cracked her knuckle once. "Okay it was kind of a moment!"

"I have just once more question…" She said, stepping the gap between them and glaring her red into his. "Where's mine?"

Ryner felt his heart stop fro a second. "...What?"

Yang then grabbed Ryner by the collar and rammed her lips into his. Yang's lips where different to Weiss's, these were hotter, flusher, more enticing to play around with, and he found himself, yet again, falling into it and kissing her back. About ten seconds later he felt her tongue exploring his mouth, and he returned the expedition with of of his own into her mouth, brushing over her tongue and feeling her breath deeply in response.

"Ew." Legion stated bluntly.

'Hey, this is actually quite enjoyable...'

"You disgust me brat. And SWEET MOTHER GRIMM THE PINEAPPLE BISCUITS ARE ATTACKING!" With Legion distracted Ryner focused on the kiss as the passion increased. He felt her push her body against his, and on instinct his hand fell to her ass, which he grabbed on impulse. Yang jumped on her feet, and he felt her smile under the kiss, and return by combing her hand into his hair, and pulling it gently but enough to make him smile to. Ten minutes later, Yang finally let go of him.

Ryner then collapsed with a bright red face so adorable it put Ruby's pout to shame. He couldn't speak, a permanent smile over his face. Legion was still going crazy in his head, and he thought to himself.

'Well damn.'

"NO I DON'T WANT TEA MR DRAGONCAT." Legion squeaked.

{Selene}

"Oh, Yang, there you are, we were wondering if you wanted to- why is Rye on the floor?" Selene had to admit, Ryner looked adorable at the time. He was opening and closing his mouth, breathing like he had just run a marathon.

"You were saying something Selene?" Yang asked with a Cheshire Cat grin.

"Yeah. We were wondering if you wanted to come to Vale with us..." Selene said, slightly scared for her own safety.

"Sure, why not." Then Ryners phone went off. Right as RWB and JNPR walked over.

Talk to corporate (like a boss)

Approve memos (like a boss)

Lead a workshop (like a boss)

Remember birthdays (like a…)

Ryner picked up the phone from his position on the floor and answered the call, his voice high pitched. "Go for Hunter."

"Really? That's his ringtone?" Moon sweatdropped.

"Uh huh." Ryner was saying down the phone. "Uh huh. To death you say? And what about the rest of the students…? To death you say. Well, thanks for the update." He hung up the phone, and stood up and looked at Selene, a funny look in his eye. "So, here's the thing. Ive taken this medication that's supposed to help my "problem". Well, a problem has come up with that."

Elsewhere –

"Oozy, come on! Why the hate for me man I'm just helping on of your students-"

"Helping on of my student acquire very dangerous and volatile military grade narcotics? Yes, I am well aware you are "helping" Mr Hunter." Oozpin sat at his deck sipping his coffee as usual as Ajax sat on the table and picked up pictures and papers from the desk curiously.

"Look, he called me said he needed to shut that thing inside his head up for a few hours a day. I just so happened to have acquired-"

"Stolen." Oozpin corrected.

"-Some experimental Grimm tranquiliser from the Schnee dust headquarters. And I offered it to him for a reasonable price, no harm done." Ajax give a wide beam, but his face sank when Oozpin looked less then please.

Oozpin sighed. "So long as Ryner is kept in control while he is here, then I suppose it's for the best." Oozpin rose from his chair, staring outside as his sipped his coffee like he always did. "So, you gave him the serum?"

"Yep, the white one." Ajax said.

"You do mean to blue one right?"

Oozpin and Ajax looked at eachother for a second, then the cogs above them clocked once and they both thought the same thought, but Ajax was the one who said it first.

"Oh Ursa'a cock." He picked up his phone and dialled Ryner, who answered in a much sweetened tone. "Hello~"

"Ryner, listen to be, the serum I gave you, it was the wrong one. The numbing effects are only temporary, when it wears off, you'll crush those pretty your friends to death!"

"To death you say?" He said, his voice not changing from the happy tone. "What about the rest of the students?"

"I'm pretty sure you'll crush them to death aswell."

"To death you say. Well thanks for the update." Ryner hung up, and Ajax put his phone away, turning back to Oozpin. "Think the problem is solved?"

As soon as he finished talking an explosion sounded below them in the school. Oozpin just sipped his coffee again and gazed at Ajax. "Please get out of my academy."

"Yeah, I'll be going now."

"Ryner?" Selene said, backing away with Yang. "Why are your eyes glowing white and your arms are flying around like a bird?"

Ryner was indeed having what seemed to be a series of spasms. His eyes seemed to dip glowing white tendrils and his face seemed to be one of confusion. He had already slammed his fist into the wall, blasting through it making a hole the size of a Goliath. "What are you talking about, I feel fine! I mean His eyes seemed to dip glowing white tendrils and his face seemed to be one of confusion. "What are you talking about, I feel fine! I mean Yang and I just mad out why wouldn't I be fine!"

"Ryner!" Yang yelled. She would have turned pink if it wasn't for Ryner drawing his sword.

"What?" He said again.

"Yang, something tell me this serum if screwing with his head a little bit." Selene said, drawing her scythe for protection.

"Oh, the serum that's supposed to keep Legion under control?" Ryner said, drawing his other sword now. "Yeah, it's working a treat!"

"Ryner." Selene said, her aura surrounding her. "You do realise your drawing your sword at us?"

"He doesn't child." Moon said, her voice determined. "His body is not his own. The serum is a parasite, designed to destroy a Grimm from the inside. Since the boy is half Grimm, half Human, the effects are… Erratic."

"I really like hugging you Selene." Ryner said, trying to outstretch his arms but instead pointing his pistol at her. "Can I have a hug?"

Selene was ready for when he pulled the trigger, spinning her scythe and deflecting each shot. Yang tried to advance but couldn't make any progress, and had to back away to avoid getting shot.

Selene dived forward, her aura protecting her from most of the bullets, and she crashed into Ryner, launching them through the hole in the wall and falling down the side of the building.

4 stories she must have fell before she cut her scythe into the side of the wall, slowing he decent and she flipped onto it and balanced on its strong handle to watch Ryner's less elegant decent to the ground. His body didn't seem to really acknowledge it was falling very fast until it hit the ground, dust rising from impact, and as it cleared Ryner was shown, still with his confused look, lying in a crater.

Selene thought it would be over, but Ryner being Ryner, he was annoyingly persistent. He flung himself out of the crater, and ran to the wall Selene was balanced again, and when he hit the wall he began to ascend it, His swords at either side, aiming straight at Selene.

Selene pulled her scythe from the wall and flew down the face of the building, meeting Ryner halfway and clashing metal on metal. Ryner just smiled and laughed. "Oh we are outside now! Let's play eye-spy!"

"Rye, I'm a little busy."

"First one to see a crazy old guy who sold me the mojo!"

Selene glanced back, noticing the middle aged man who was with Ryner before looking over the hole down at them. "Oh, hello."

"Hello." Selene said, her voice stern. "So, come to see what you've done?" Ryner and her seemed to be locked in there clash.

Ajax looked at the hole Ryner had created. "It's certainly impressive. Gotta hand it to old Schnee, man hires to good brainiac's."

"Let's get away from its impressiveness and focus on FIXING IT!"

"Oh, right." Ajax pulled a blue fluid filled syringe. "Here, this is the one that he was supposed to take." He threw it down to her, and inevitably since she was clashing swords-on-scythe with Ryner, she couldn't catch it and it fell straight to the floor.

"Thanks." Selene said with a considerable amount of sarcasm. "Will that work?"

"I dunno, maybe?" Selene shot him a deathly glare and he lost his grin and stepped back from the hole.

"I found him!" Ryne shouted at last, pulling his blade free and trying it slash Selene's right, but she pushed him away, making him fall to the floor again, and she followed, landing on her feet while he landed on his back, with the syringe am arm's length away from him.

Selene stood up, her scythe by her side at the ready and light collecting in her other palm. 'Any ideas?'

"You could blast through his chest, kill him now and end all of our troubles." Moon answered hopefully.

'Yeah, let's call that plan B.'

"Well then. I suggest getting the upper hand. His body is not his own, but the serum is only making him see what he wants to see. He doesn't know he is attacking you."

"Again!" Ryner shouted, standing up and walking back towards Selene. "Your turn!"

"Okay." Selene said, hoping her plan would work. "First one to see a flying Skag."

"Okay!" Ryner said, and his eyes moved immediately to the sky, taking it off Selene and stopping in his tracks. Selene took her chance, firing her beam of light into Ryne,r launching him back. She dived for the syringe. She grabbed it in her free hand, but when she stood up Ryner had recovered, and was mid slash, which she ducked, swerving around the blade and bringing up an attack from below with her silver blade, clashing against his black one.

"I saw it!" Ryner said, getting more and more pleased with himself with each game he won.

"That's nice Rye." Selene said. "Now, as a reward, think you can inject yourself with this." She showed him the syringe.

"I think that could be dangerous don't you think?" He said, smiling innocently.

'Really, now he has morals?'

"How about new game." He said as a black aura encased him. "Who can go boom first."

"I don't think I'll like this game." Selene said, watching the black power amplify. Ryner ignored her, and Selene had to take a chance. She put all her power into pulling her scythe from his guard, then switched her strength, bringing the hilt banging on Ryner's forehead, right between his eyes.

He staggered back, holding his forehead, the white glow leaving his eyes as he rubbed them. He looked around him just as Selene readied the injection. "Wait, where…?"

"Ryner hold still."

"Huh? What wait! No no no!"

Selene was running to him, and just as he realised the silver haired girl was running straight for him with a needle in her hands she jumped onto him, plunging the barb into his neck as they fell. They collapsed onto the floor, the blue liquid seeping into his blood stream. Selene rolled off him just as his arms flew to his side, his body stiff. He lay there, unmoving apart from his eyes, which focused on Selene. "Seal? Why can't I move?"

"Well." She said, standing up and brushing the dust off her white shirt. "That serum you took fucked with your head, you tried to kill everyone in the school, and I saved you. Your welcome."

"That still doesn't explain why I can't move." He said, his voice panicking.

"Oh, that's only temporary bro." Ajax appeared, picking you the empty syringe. "The organophosphate pesticides inhibit acetylcholinesterase. Hence acetylcholine accumulates at nerve synapses and neuromuscular junctions, stimulating muscarinic and nicotinic receptors and the central nervous system."

Selene blinked. "English?"

"3…2…1."

Ryners arm jumped from his side, followed by the other, then his legs, and eventually his could move his body into a sitting position, his eyes wide. "Ajax… I'm going to fucking kill you."

"Relax bro." Ajax said, still taking a precautionary step backwards. "Your fine now. Although, if you start to smell like garlic, you might want to consider seeing a nurse."

[Ryner]

Selene was guiding Ryner back to his room. His vision had become painful and blurry, which was inconvenient since he had wanted to punch Ajax very hard in the face, but he couldn't see him, so decided to take an IOU. He felt his mouth salivate a lot to, he hoped he wasn't drooling.

They ascended the stairs, his arm around her shoulders. Halfway up they encountered black, white, red and yellow blobs that sound a lot like Blake, Weiss, Ruby and Yang. The Red blob spoke first. "Selene! Are you okay?"

"I'm fine Ruby." Selene answered.

"I'm fine aswell." Ryner said.

"You moron." The white blobbed Weiss shouted, echoing in his aching head. "You blew a hole in the side of the school! What were you thinking?"

"You mean what was he on." Black blob Blake answered for him.

Ryner winced in pain, and when he almost fell felt three new pairs of hands try and stop his fall. "You injured." Yang said.

"No, he's just and idiot." Selene said, removing her hold and passing him to one set of hands. "You take him to his room." The person didn't speak, which was helpful since his vision wasn't making it any clearer. He continued up the stairs, carried by his new unknown escort. He heard the voices of Selene and Ruby grow distant, and eventually he couldn't even hear his footsteps.

"Oh god." He said, searching around blindly. "I can't hear myself walk!"

"That's because we've stopped." Said the familiar whisper of Blake.

"Oh." He hadnt really seen much of Blake since their little 'Moment' at lunch. Her tone was the same, both halves emotionless and emotional. Her voice bought back the same feelings. Intensity, and desire.

"Ryner?" Legion said, his voice distant. "I-I feel sleepy. I'm going to go sleep." And with that, he did. Silence ripped through Ryner's thoughts like an ocean wave. It was both scary and blissful. He couldn't help but smile.

"Here." Blake laid him down on what he presumed was his bed. His vision was returning to him slowly, and eventually she can into focus, standing over him looking him over with a face of concern.

"I'm fine, really." He said, thinking clearly for the first time without interruption. "Actually, I feel great." She actually seemed to smile at him, not a half-smile he had seen before, a full, grateful smile. He felt their eyes connect again, his crimson on her amber. The same connection came back, he wanted to pull her into him, and kiss her innocent looking lips, but he didn't have to.

She almost pounced onto him, pressing her lips on his, and he was ready to except her, no surprises this time. He fully embraced her soft lips, resting his hands on her spine and her thigh. She pressed into him more, opening her mouth and to his surprise pulling his top lips with her teeth, nibbling them longingly. The sensation wasn't painful, on the contrary, he decided to do the same back, as if the longing for each other was being passed between them with the exchanging of nibbles.

He bit down lightly on her top lip, and he felt her smile and push herself back into the kiss, now grassing her tongue against his lightly, teasingly. He tried to return it, but she pulled away, grinning at him as she quickly left the room, leaving Ryner annoyed but smug. He knew why she had left him, she had bit him last, meaning it was his turn next time to bite first.

He laid back on his bed, his hands behind his head and a grin on his face. He heard Legion wake in his head. "Uhhh mother of…. What, why are you grinning?"

'Oh, no reason.' Ryner said, closing his eyes. Finally, a memory of his own after so long. 'Legion. I don't regret anything.'

Legion stayed slient for a moment, then sighed. "What do you mean?" He said reluctantly.

'I mean, the things I did with your power, I did it and a lot of it might be questionable, but it was the right thing. I'm using your power for good, and if you don't like that to bad. I want to be a Hunter, and I'm gunna be the best Hunter.'

"Oh good for you." Legion groaned.

{Selene}

Selene and Ruby walked back to their room, notcing Blake round the corner next to them. Selene stopped her. "Ryner is okay then?"

"Sure, yeah." She said, sounding seemingly uninterested, but Selene noticed her top lip was slightly red, and suspected Ryner had done another Ryner thing. Blake walked off, leaving Selene and Ruby at the door to Selene's room.

"Are you sure you're okay Sel?" Ruby repeated for the hundredth time since the stairs.

"I'm fine Rub." Selene reassured, noticing her sad expression. "What's wrong?"

Ruby's face turned rosy. "Well… I was really worried. I saw you fighting outside and…" She trailed off, and eventually stood up straight. "No, I wasn't worried. You were awesome out there!"

"Thank you." Selene laughed. "So, what's wrong then? If you weren't worried what were you?"

Ruby didn't answer, instead she jumped and hugged Selene, even though they were the same height, Selene only slightly taller. Selene was surprised but returned the hug, holding Ruby close to her and feeling her warmth. They had been very close, and since the other night when they cuddled Selene felt close to her.

They hug half broke apart, Ruby's arms still around her neck. Both smiled at each other, but Selene soon broke the hug, opening her door quickly. "Well, night Ruby."

"Wait!" Ruby said, blocking Selene from closing the door. "Do you want to cuddle tonight maybe?" She said with a cute pout which Selene couldn't refuse. She pushed the door open for her.

"Oh yeahhhhh" Ruby said, dancing into the room as Selene smiled, closing the door behind her.